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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. -- Quintilian
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. -- George Santayana
I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time. -- Jeff Ross
Happiness often comes when least expected. -- FranÃ§ois Lelord
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens -- Benjamin Disraeli
To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected. -- Bruce Lee
But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it. -- Jodi Lynn Anderson
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed. -- Plautus
One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected. -- Jeff Garcia
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not always run away from the darkness! Remember the beautiful lakes which are hidden inside the dark caves! In the least expected places, there exist the most beautiful treasures! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache. -- Banana Yoshimoto
I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you. -- Susane Colasanti
As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. -- Edmund Burke
When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways. -- Hope Edelman
The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker. -- John William Strutt
Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. -- Samuel Johnson
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain. -- Mark Helprin
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. -- Dominic Cooper
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. -- Esai Morales
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Love finds you. You always get smacked with love when you least expect it. -- Scott Eastwood
When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. -- Maggie Kuhn
But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it. -- Bear Grylls
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. -- Ovid
Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
My ideas come when I least expect it, so I've always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere. -- Akon
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. -- Ovid
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish. -- Ovid
If you're looking for a boyfriend, you aren't gonna find one. They seem to come into your life when you least expect it. -- Kristin Cavallari
In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave. -- Naomi Weisstein
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. -- Gregory Bateson
I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books. -- Zadie Smith
If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you. -- Kerstin Gier

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